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Archive for January, 2016

Camera Raw 9.4 is now available through the update mechanism in Photoshop CC and the Creative Cloud application.

As mentioned in an update to our camera support policy here, Camera Raw 9.4 is only available in Photoshop CC or later. Customers using older versions of Photoshop can utilize the DNG Converter for continued camera support.

Introducing Boundary Warp

Stitched panoramas often have non-rectangular boundaries. There are several ways to handle irregular boundaries. The most common approach is to apply a rectangular crop. This is straightforward, but important image details near the boundary may be lost due to cropping. Another approach is to use Content Aware Fill (in Photoshop) to fill in the transparent areas outside the boundary. This can be effective, but may require multiple attempts to obtain a satisfying (smooth, artifact-free) result. It can also be expensive and requires rendering out the panorama to an output-referred format. Boundary Warp is a feature that provides another approach to handling the irregular boundary of panoramas. The feature analyzes the boundary and warps the image so that its edges fit a rectangular frame. Here’s a visual example of the feature:

Please note this animation was created in Lightroom 6.4

New Camera Support in Camera Raw 9.4

Fujifilm X70

Fujifilm X-E2S

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Leica M (Typ 262)

Leica X-U (Typ 113)

Panasonic DMC-ZS60 (DMC-TZ80, DMC-TZ81, DMC-TZ85)

Phase One IQ150

Sony ILCA-68 (A68)

Additional Updates in Camera Raw 9.4

Nikon 1 J4 Camera matching profile support added

The panorama merging process should complete roughly twice as fast as ACR 6.3

Lightroom CC 2015.4 and Lightroom 6.4 are now available on Adobe.com. The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom. This release also includes a new Boundary Warp feature for Creative Cloud members.

Thank you for all your feedback and passion for Lightroom.

Introducing Boundary Warp

Stitched panoramas often have non-rectangular boundaries. There are several ways to handle irregular boundaries. The most common approach is to apply a rectangular crop. This is straightforward, but important image details near the boundary may be lost due to cropping. Another approach is to use Content Aware Fill (in Photoshop) to fill in the transparent areas outside the boundary. This can be effective, but may require multiple attempts to obtain a satisfying (smooth, artifact-free) result. It can also be expensive and requires rendering out the panorama to an output-referred(non-raw) format. Boundary Warp is a feature that provides another approach to handling the irregular boundary of panoramas. The feature analyzes the boundary and warps the image so that its edges fit a rectangular frame. Here’s a visual example of the feature:

New Camera Support in Lightroom CC 2015.4 / 6.4

Fujifilm X70

Fujifilm X-E2S

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Leica M (Typ 262)

Leica X-U (Typ 113)

Panasonic DMC-ZS60 (DMC-TZ80, DMC-TZ81, DMC-TZ85)

Phase One IQ150

Sony ILCA-68 (A68)

Additional Updates in Lightroom CC 2015.4 / 6.4

Nikon 1 J4 Camera Matching Profile added

The panorama merging process should complete roughly twice as fast as Lightroom 6.3

Please select Help > Updates to use the update mechanism in the Creative Cloud app.

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